Vehicle Operator Interface for Flexible Driver and Fleet Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional transportation methods, such as buses and taxis, face challenges in rural areas due to limited accessibility and inflexible scheduling, while demand-responsive transportation systems lack efficient management tools for vehicle and driver operations.

Innovation Solution

The development of interfaces for managing vehicle operating corporations and affiliated drivers, including data listing, condition setting, and database management, to optimize demand-responsive transportation services by providing a user-friendly interface for managing registered corporations and drivers within the system.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If demand-responsive transportation is implemented in remote areas, then accessibility and service flexibility are improved, but operational management efficiency deteriorates due to lack of management tools

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice flexibilityVSAvoidoperational management efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The management terminal enables automated registration and management of corporations and drivers through structured interfaces. The system automatically processes registration data, validates information, and maintains databases without manual intervention, allowing the system to manage itself efficiently while supporting flexible DRT operations in remote areas

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual management processes are replaced with electronic data processing systems. The terminal device captures, stores, and processes corporation and driver information digitally, substituting paper-based or manual administrative methods with automated computational systems that improve operational efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If comprehensive management interfaces are developed for corporations and drivers, then operational efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational efficiencyVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The management terminal is divided into distinct functional modules: a corporation management terminal for handling corporation registrations and data, and a driver management terminal for managing driver information. Each terminal has dedicated interfaces and databases, separating complex management functions into manageable, independent segments that reduce overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive operational capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20230347908A1Method and device for providing interface for managing a vehicle operating corporation and interface for managing driver belonging to vehicle operating corporation
Publication Date: 2023.11.02 UMOS ONE INC
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AI summary

Provided are a method and device for providing an interface for managing a vehicle operating corporation and an interface for managing an affiliated driver belonging to a vehicle operating corporation. The method of providing an interface for managing a vehicle operating corporation includes displaying a first corporation management interface including a 1-1st area configured to list data about one or more registered corporations, a 1-2nd area configured to set conditions for the one or more registered corporations to be listed in the 1-1st area, and a 1-3rd area configured to add data about a registered corporation to a database, in response to receiving an input for interacting with an object included in the 1-2nd area to set corporation listing conditions, selecting data about one or more registered corporations that satisfy the corporation listing conditions, from among data about a plurality of registered corporations, and displaying the selected data about the one or more registered corporations to be listed in the 1-1st area, and in response to receiving an input for interacting with an object included in the 1-3rd area, displaying a second corporation management interface for adding a registered corporation to the database.